LXXXI [f. 61v; Sathas VI, 202]

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DISPACCI LXXXVII (14 November 1482) 281
Furthermore, the stratioti remaining here, apart from those who have gone with
the fleet, met with the Magnificent Provveditor of the Fleet and me, and complained
that for about a year they have had no payment of money, so that they are in extreme
need. We replied and comforted them with gentle words, which do not satisfy them.
Your Most Wise Lordship will provide as it pleases you.
LXXXVIII (11 January 1482)
Most Serene Prince:
Today I was informed by a letter from the voivode of Mistra that because of bad weather
two ships belonging to King Ferdinand arrived at the Mani with 700 men who said they
were going to the country of the sultan, as Your Lordship will learn from the enclosed
copy of the letter. Although these ships are said to be going to the sultan’s country,
they could be going to the island of Cyprus to make an attempt to disturb matters
on that island. So thinking it important for Your Lordship’s affairs, especially at the
present time, I wished to give this information to Your Excellency, who will most wisely
make such judgment and provision as pleases you. Furthermore, I have sent letters to
the Magnificent Provveditor of the Fleet to Modon and Lepanto, and written to the
Magnificent Rettori that they should send the letters to His Magnificence wherever he is,
so that he can take whatever steps seem appropriate about that matter.
The flamburar of Negroponte has arrived, to whom I have sent a messenger to
congratulate him in my name on his arrival, and remind him that I sent a messenger
to Constantinople to make a complaint at the Porte of the Sultan against his predecessor
because of the welcome given by him to the fuste, and the damage done to the subjects of
Your Lordship, with other comments appropriate to this matter, so that such attacks
can be prevented and the subjects of Your Lordship can sail in safety.
Duplicated by way of Lepanto.
about the stratioti